Sean Carscadden - You've Made Me So Very Happy (Blood, Sweat & Tears / Alton Ellis Cover)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Sean Carscadden - Vocals, Guitar
Cliff Hugo - Bass
Mikey Lee Cannon - Drums
Recorded Live in Sonoma, CA
October 27. 2023
"You've Made Me So Very Happy" is a song written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy, and was released first as a single in 1967 by Brenda Holloway on the Tamla label. The song was later a huge hit for jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1969, and became a Gold record.
Overview
Brenda Holloway version
Brenda Holloway had been recording for Motown Records since 1964, and by 1967 had struggled with the label over control of and support for her music. As she was a Los Angeles resident with much of the rest of the Motown roster living near the label's Detroit, MI headquarters, Holloway felt overlooked and neglected during her five years on the label. In 1967, Holloway was hoping for the release of her long-awaited second album, Hurtin' & Cryin, with her latest single, "Just Look What You've Done," intended as the first single.[2] For unknown reasons, the record was shelved.[2]
"You've Made Me So Very Happy, " which became Holloway's final single on Motown's Tamla label, was co-written by Holloway with her sister, Patrice, producer Frank Wilson, and Motown label head Berry Gordy. Despite its optimism, the impetus for the song was a breakup Holloway was going through at the time.[3] Holloway and Gordy argued over the song's arrangement during the recording process, a fight Holloway lost and a confrontation that underscored her decision to depart from the label afterward.[3]
Reaction to the song was stronger than Holloway's previous offerings, rising to number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming her third Top-40 pop single.[4] It peaked at number 40 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.[5] Shortly after its
"You've Made Me So Very Happy"
Single by Brenda Holloway from the album The Artistry of
Brenda Holloway
B-side Released Recorded
Genre
Label
Producer(s)
"I've Got to Find It" August 17, 1967 July 21, 1967
Soul
Tamla
Frank Wilson, Berry Gordy Jr.
Studio Hitsville West Studios, Los
Angeles
Length
2:54 (7" version)
2:52 ("16 Big Hits" stereo mix)
Songwriter(s) Berry Gordy Jr., Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway,
Frank Wilson
Brenda Holloway singles chronology
"Just Look What You've
Done" (1967)
"You've Made Me So Very
Happy" (1967)
"Give Me a Little Inspiration" (1988)
"You've Made Me So Very
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release, Holloway left Motown and the song was eventually featured on her "second" album, The Artistry of Brenda Holloway. After two years singing backgrounds for acts such as Joe Cocker, Holloway retired to marry a preacher and raise a family. By the mid-1990s, she had returned to music full- time.[6]
Blood, Sweat & Tears version
Brenda Holloway's "You've Made Me So Very Happy" received a boost when the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears recorded a new arrangement in 1969.[7] Included on the group's eponymous second album, it became one of Blood, Sweat & Tears' biggest hits, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in April 1969.[8] The song was kept from the number 1 spot by "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by The 5th Dimension.[9] Outside the US, "You've Made Me So Very Happy", went to number 35 in the United Kingdom in May 1969.[10]
Other versions
The song was recorded by Motown acts such as Edwin Starr and Blinky on their 1969 duet album Just We Two, Chris Clark on her 1969 album CC Rides Again, The Temptations in 1970, The Miracles, also in 1970, and Diana Ross in 1994 on a Berry Gordy tribute album.
Bobbie Gentry, on her 1969 album Touch 'Em with Love. Cher, in 1969, for her album 3614 Jackson Highway, but
the take was left off the final track list.
Liza Minnelli Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, May 18, 1969
Lou Rawls recorded it and named his 18th album, You've Made Me So Very Happy (1970) after it.
Sammy Davis Jr., for his 1970 album, Something for Everyone.
Matt Monro, on his 1970 album We're Gonna Change the World.
Little-known Motown act The Hearts of Stone recorded a version for their 1970 album Stop the World - We Wanna Get On.
Alton Ellis cut two reggae versions in 1970, one for Treasure Isle and one for Studio One, both in Jamaic
Wonderful version, thankyou
Nice spin with the Reggae back beat.😎🎸🎸🎸🎸.
always dig your stuff
Super sound keep on groovin,love from Spain🕺🏻🕺🏻
Thanks so much! Love that I’m getting views in different countries!
How you don't have a million subs man I'll never understand. Your walking Blues and Sailing Shoes is god like. Gained a fan in me!
Pure genus, as always, and a great throwback. Haven't listened to BS&T in decades!
Thanks Kevin!
@@SeanCarscadden Double thanks, because this has sent me to the Alton Ellis reggae-infused cover, which clearly is the influence for your live version (rather than the brassy, jazzy-rocky BS&T number I knew as a teenager). Hell's bells, Mr Carscadden, why on earth aren't you a major recording star already? I was bowled over by your cover of Sailin' Shoes (Little Feat via Robert Palmer) and have shared it with all my friends with half a musical ear. You and your amazing band (so versatile, so sympathetic, so engaging, so effing good at what they do!) deserve the widest audience and the biggest gigs. Do you produce original music? My god, the world is a better place for musicians like you and Cliff and Mikey. Thanks!
I like it just as much as the original
Would love it if you could do a cover of Bell Bottom Blues
SO cool! Always great to hear you play and sing! What are the Jazzmasters you are playing? One looks like a J Mascis...?
Peace
Thanks Frank! Both my Jazzmaster’s are , in fact, Jmascis Models. I did a custom stain job on the brown one!
🥰🥰🥰👍👍👍🫶🫶🫶
Grazie!